[GUI Plugin] FanFicFare - Page 450

ownedbycats · 12-09-2021, 04:57 PM

I am mostly curious as to why someone would even use txt. html isn't much bigger, still human-readable in a text editor, and doesn't strip all the formatting!

Hm, now I'm wondering if FFF could be made to preserve formatting in txt format as markdown or something. Doubt it's worth the effort.

tricklem · 12-09-2021, 08:27 PM

Has anyone else had issues where Fanficfare downloads the story says it worked, and everything but when I open the epub the chapters aren't there? Like not in the table of contents or anything? Didn't have this issue until I had to rebuild everything and I am wondering if I have a setting wrong?

JimmXinu · 12-09-2021, 11:55 PM

Using the CLI -m / --meta-only option is the only way I know to get that.

Running Calibre in debug mode may help tell you more.

Da Man · 12-10-2021, 10:18 AM

Anyone here who can explain how to use flaresolverr? I have docker, the repository and started the container with docker-compose up -d. There is use_flaresolverr_proxy:true in the personal.ini.
I thought that should do the trick, but fff tells me

Connection to flaresolverr proxy server failed. Is flaresolverr started?

Well, I did start the container. What's a docker noob to do?

JimmXinu · 12-10-2021, 11:14 AM

New Test Version Posted

2021-12-10
- adapter_scribblehubcom: Corner case removing spoilers. Closes #778

ackomb · 12-10-2021, 01:21 PM

Hey Guys, upon till 2 days ago i had a decent thing going with using flare solver v2 to download from ff.net but since last night it has been on the fritz again.

I've been getting this error:
HTTP Error in FFF '500 Server Error: Internal Server Error for url: http://localhost:8191/v1'(500)

Any ideas?

ownedbycats · 12-10-2021, 02:58 PM

Flaresolverr hasn't been working for me either -- either an internal server error from it timing out, or the occasional "your IP is blocked!" message (when I can access via browser fine). I've fallen back to the ffdl cache.

tricklem · 12-10-2021, 06:43 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by tricklem

Has anyone else had issues where Fanficfare downloads the story says it worked, and everything but when I open the epub the chapters aren't there? Like not in the table of contents or anything? Didn't have this issue until I had to rebuild everything and I am wondering if I have a setting wrong?

So ran the debug but I am not sure what to look for. The meta data updates but when you open the epub the chapters that it said it downloaded aren't there. However if I remove the story and download it as a new story everything comes through...

Just updated to the newest Calibre and the test version of fanficfare and tried again but got the same results. If anyone can tell me what I am doing wrong I would really appreciate it. I have attached the debug file

ownedbycats · 12-10-2021, 07:39 PM

Thought: Does the file at C:\Users\myname\AppData\Local\Temp\calibre_wc9herl 2\fanficfare_2uao3kao\bgmeta-h47ktyrl.epub have all the chapters?

tricklem · 12-10-2021, 07:47 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by ownedbycats

Thought: Does the file at C:\Users\myname\AppData\Local\Temp\calibre_wc9herl 2\fanficfare_2uao3kao\bgmeta-h47ktyrl.epub have all the chapters?

Yes, because if I remove the story and download it as a new story all the chapters will come through.

JimmXinu · 12-11-2021, 01:01 PM

@tricklem - If you have copies of the epubs doing this, ideally both before and after update, and can post them, I'll take a look.

OTOH, if downloading as new works, you at least have a solution.

tricklem · 12-11-2021, 03:01 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by JimmXinu

@tricklem - If you have copies of the epubs doing this, ideally both before and after update, and can post them, I'll take a look.

OTOH, if downloading as new works, you at least have a solution.

Thank you @JimmXinu. I appreciate any help I can get. I have attached a screen shot that shows the meta data is current but the story chapters aren't, and the epub I attached after the update.

I recently had to rebuild everything and I am thinking that I must have a setting wrong, but I am not sure which one.

JimmXinu · 12-11-2021, 05:41 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by tricklem

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I think the problem is an interaction between Calibre's Convert and the HTML from the site.

The epub you attached is output from Calibre Convert (epub->epub?)--not FFF.

Looking at your epub, the text is there, but the chapters have all been split into more than one file inside the epub. Just next page/page down from the chapter title and the text starts in a separate file.

A bit of testing shows that is what a Calibre epub -> epub conversion does to the FFF output from starslibrary.net.

Calibre's convert settings for 'Structure detection' is looking for tags with class="chapter". Which starslibrary.net (and all Base eFiction sites

) have marking the <div> tag containing the chapter text. By default (I assume--I don't remember changing that), Calibre is adding a 'pagebreak' there, apparently implemented as a break between files. Which it puts between the chapter title and the chapter text.

Trying to update such an epub gives me "FanFicFare doesn't recognize chapters in existing epub...". Which makes sense--it doesn't match FFF's file structure anymore.

So, the answer is, unfortunately, that any FFF Base eFiction site epub you did a calibre epub->epub convert on is likely broken as far as FFF update is concerned.

The only immediate fix is 'Don't do that.' Which isn't a great answer for people who convert to azw3 for Kindle (like me).

You have to go into Calibre's Conversion, Common options, under Structure detection and change the Chapter mark setting to 'None'. That will prevent new conversions from splitting the chapters.

I will add code to FFF to remove that class attribute for future downloads. But I need to think about it more first to decide if it's worth adding code to change existing downloaded chapters also.

I suspect this is a (somewhat) recent change to Calibre's default settings for Conversion? I feel like I would have run into it before working on base efiction sites, since I do use conversion...

JimmXinu · 12-11-2021, 06:54 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by JimmXinu

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I suspect this is a (somewhat) recent change to Calibre's default settings for Conversion? I feel like I would have run into it before working on base efiction sites, since I do use conversion...

Or not. Does the same thing in Calibre 4.23.

Working on a fix.

ownedbycats · 12-11-2021, 07:03 PM

Could it have been a recent change to the efiction sites instead?

12-09-2021, 04:57 PM	#6736
ownedbycats Custom User Title Posts: 11,003 Karma: 75337983 Join Date: Oct 2018 Location: Canada Device: Kobo Libra H2O, formerly Aura HD	I am mostly curious as to why someone would even use txt. html isn't much bigger, still human-readable in a text editor, and doesn't strip all the formatting! Hm, now I'm wondering if FFF could be made to preserve formatting in txt format as markdown or something. Doubt it's worth the effort. Last edited by ownedbycats; 12-09-2021 at 05:03 PM.

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12-09-2021, 08:27 PM	#6737
tricklem Connoisseur Posts: 60 Karma: 10 Join Date: Feb 2015 Device: none	Has anyone else had issues where Fanficfare downloads the story says it worked, and everything but when I open the epub the chapters aren't there? Like not in the table of contents or anything? Didn't have this issue until I had to rebuild everything and I am wondering if I have a setting wrong?

12-09-2021, 11:55 PM	#6738
JimmXinu Plugin Developer Posts: 6,981 Karma: 4604635 Join Date: Dec 2011 Location: Midwest USA Device: Kobo Clara Colour running KOReader	Using the CLI -m / --meta-only option is the only way I know to get that. Running Calibre in debug mode may help tell you more.

12-10-2021, 10:18 AM	#6739
Da Man Enthusiast Posts: 27 Karma: 10 Join Date: Jun 2018 Device: none	Anyone here who can explain how to use flaresolverr? I have docker, the repository and started the container with docker-compose up -d. There is use_flaresolverr_proxy:true in the personal.ini. I thought that should do the trick, but fff tells me Connection to flaresolverr proxy server failed. Is flaresolverr started? Well, I did start the container. What's a docker noob to do?

12-10-2021, 11:14 AM	#6740
JimmXinu Plugin Developer Posts: 6,981 Karma: 4604635 Join Date: Dec 2011 Location: Midwest USA Device: Kobo Clara Colour running KOReader	New Test Version Posted 2021-12-10 - adapter_scribblehubcom: Corner case removing spoilers. Closes #778

12-10-2021, 01:21 PM	#6741
ackomb Zealot Posts: 106 Karma: 4486 Join Date: Mar 2020 Location: Netherlands Device: i-pad	Hey Guys, upon till 2 days ago i had a decent thing going with using flare solver v2 to download from ff.net but since last night it has been on the fritz again. I've been getting this error: HTTP Error in FFF '500 Server Error: Internal Server Error for url: http://localhost:8191/v1'(500) Any ideas?

12-10-2021, 02:58 PM	#6742
ownedbycats Custom User Title Posts: 11,003 Karma: 75337983 Join Date: Oct 2018 Location: Canada Device: Kobo Libra H2O, formerly Aura HD	Flaresolverr hasn't been working for me either -- either an internal server error from it timing out, or the occasional "your IP is blocked!" message (when I can access via browser fine). I've fallen back to the ffdl cache.

12-10-2021, 07:39 PM	#6744
ownedbycats Custom User Title Posts: 11,003 Karma: 75337983 Join Date: Oct 2018 Location: Canada Device: Kobo Libra H2O, formerly Aura HD	Thought: Does the file at C:\Users\myname\AppData\Local\Temp\calibre_wc9herl 2\fanficfare_2uao3kao\bgmeta-h47ktyrl.epub have all the chapters?

12-11-2021, 01:01 PM	#6746
JimmXinu Plugin Developer Posts: 6,981 Karma: 4604635 Join Date: Dec 2011 Location: Midwest USA Device: Kobo Clara Colour running KOReader	@tricklem - If you have copies of the epubs doing this, ideally both before and after update, and can post them, I'll take a look. OTOH, if downloading as new works, you at least have a solution.

12-11-2021, 07:03 PM	#6750
ownedbycats Custom User Title Posts: 11,003 Karma: 75337983 Join Date: Oct 2018 Location: Canada Device: Kobo Libra H2O, formerly Aura HD	Could it have been a recent change to the efiction sites instead?